Leading off today: Sauquoit Valley snapped West Canada Valley’s 49-game home-court winning streak in boys basketball with a 62-58 triumph last night.

   Sauquoit Valley went on a 23-8 run over the final nine minutes to earn the victory. Mike Lallier and Mark Martin scored nine points apiece in the fourth quarter to pace the winners.

   "There were a number of times when we were up eight or nine points where if we’d hit a shot we’d have been up double digits but we couldn’t get over that hump,” West Canada Valley coach Steve Porter told The Telegram, "mostly because of turnovers."

   Sauquoit Valley is now 6-6 after an 0-3 start that included a 57-51 loss at home to West Canada Valley.

   Truce: First-year Banneker girls basketball coach Jonathan Anderson and Mike Williams, father of star sophomore guard Africa Williams, appear to have worked out their differences, The New York Daily News reported.

   Last Friday, the two got into a dispute that turned into a shouting match that had to be broken up by school safety officers during a game against Boys & Girls. Anderson alleged that Williams threw a punch that

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missed, the paper reported.

   "We talked about it and it's over with," Anderson said after a 71-50 victory vs. Boys & Girls in which Africa Williams scored 23 points. "We're just moving on from it. It's no big deal, just a matter of tempers flaring in the heat of the moment and that's it. We're OK with each other now. We're just focused on making our playoff run."

   More girls basketball: Grand Island, ranked No. 1 in Class A, scored a 48-34 win vs. Lockport, fifth in class AA, on Tuesday. Kallie Banker led the way with 15 points, and Cassie Oursler added 12 points and 10 rebounds.

   Schedule concerns: When the snow piles up, so does the backlog of games. And that's becoming a bit of a problem on the eastern side of the state these days, where some school districts have lost three days of classes -- and extra-curricular activities -- in two weeks.

   "Usually we can just reschedule a game for the following day,” Chatham AD Scott Steltz told The Daily Mail. “We planned on moving games from Tuesday to Wednesday and now we have to move them again. The tough ones are modified games because we’re supposed to give the younger kids a day off between games.”

   Besides finding mutually agreeable dates with the opponent, ADs have to schedule referees and game staff. And, of course, the building has to be available, too. That could mean moving other scheduled contests and/or practices.

   “We don’t have too many games in February, so we have some room there," Cairo-Durham AD Greg Hagan said. "If we have more than one additional snow day from this point forward it may become an issue. We don’t want our basketball teams to play back-to-back. We also have to work around Regents exams, which are next week.

   Uniforms stolen: The CSI/McCown High School boys basketball team has been playing in its road uniforms since the squad's home uniforms were stolen from coach

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Ray Palma's car last month.

   Palma is on the hook for replacements, which will run over $1,800, The Advance reported.

   "I'm not against philanthropy," Palma joked, "and if anyone or any organization would like to help us out, it would be greatly appreciated."

   College of Staten Island High School for International Studies/McCown is 5-10 this season following a 63-53 upset of New Dorp last week.

   Borrosh enshrined: Retired Pittsford Mendon boys coach Joe Borrosh was inducted into the National Soccer Coaches Association Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Baltimore, making him just the eighth high school coach to be so honored.

   Borrosh coached the Vikings to 16 Section 5 and six NYSPHSAA championships. He finished 498-102-63 in 32 seasons and was named NSCAA national coach of the year in 1989, a year after his wife Brenda won the award as coach of the Mendon girls.

   Borrosh played soccer at Brockport State for fellow NSCAA Hall of Famer Huntley Parker.

   Big ambitions: Fresh off her victory last month in the Foot Locker Cross Country Nationals, Cornwall senior Aisling Cuffe is prepping for the U.S. Junior Championships on Feb. 5 in San Diego, with a berth to the world championships at stake.

   In order to do so, though, Cuffe is passing up the girls' indoor mile at the Millrose Games on Jan. 28.

   "Millrose would be nice,'' she told The Times Herald-Record, "but I felt actually representing the USA in a world event, an international competition would be a lot more valuable to me heading into the years. I love Millrose, but I want to try something different, and I love cross country."

   Cuffe is up against any number of obstacles, not the least of which is the longer distance of the race -- six kilometers compared to the typical 5K in high school. She's also training in snow and cold and will be racing against a number of college freshmen. The top six in San Diego advance to the world meet March 20 in Punta Umbria, Spain.

   Extra points: Mira Wassef of the Times Herald-Record wrote a fun story about Tuxedo's gym (built in the 1920s), which evokes memories of Hoosiers. She even interviewed 92-year-old Margaret Iannone, who was part of a 110-game winning streak in the 1930s. You can check it out here.